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By Jim Wagner and Ryan Naraine Malicious hackers using sophisticated password-sniffing techniques have compromised multi-user Linux and Solaris computers that run academic supercomputer centers, according to an advisory issued by the Stanford University’s IT Systems and Services (ITSS) unit. Stanford said the unknown attacker (or group) gains access to a machine by cracking or sniffing […]

By Ron Miller NewsGator, maker of news aggregator software, is launching a new product that provides RSS feeds on televisions connected to a network powered by Microsoft XP Media Center Edition 2004. News aggregators take advantage of RSS, an XML specification for content syndication, to deliver news and information from Web sites and blogs that […]

By Sean Michael Kerner Browser-based attacks are increasing and “may pose the next significant security threat to IT operations,” a new survey from the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA) warns. “It’s an ongoing spy-versus-spy problem,” Randall Palm, director of IT services for CompTIA, told internetnews.com. “The better we get at stopping one attack, the better […]

By Ron Miller Media industry professionals, academics and intellectual property experts are gathering in New York City this week for Digital Rights Management (DRM) Strategies 2004, a conference focusing on the legal, technical and social implications of DRM. The three-day event, produced by Jupitermedia (the parent of this Web site), is being held at the […]

Chicago’s Central DuPage Hospital is going totally wireless, in more ways than one. Sprint PCS is outfitting the place with all the radio frequency traffic it can handle: first, the entire facility will be a Sprint PCS Wi-Fi ZONE hotzone, with 160 APs providing coverage for patients and visitors that want to go online (cost […]

By Ron Miller The market for softswitches , the platforms that connect wireline phone calls to IP networks for Voice over IP, is poised for explosive growth through 2008, after a jump of more than 42 percent in 2003, according to In-Stat MDR. But all that growth is contingent on how fast VoIP goes mainstream. […]

A private security research firm on Thursday warned of a potentially critical security flaw in the RealPlayer software distributed by RealNetworks that could allow malicious hackers to hijack vulnerable computers. According to an alert from U.K.-based NGS Software, the security flaw affects RealPlayer 8, RealOne Player, RealOne Player v2 for Windows only (all languages), RealPlayer […]

By Ron Miller As e-commerce sites begin to mature, managers are looking for their Web analysis tools to mature too. Analytics provider Omniture thinks it has just the grown-up answer with the release of SiteCatalyst 10, which provides an advanced set of tools to give users access to detailed Web analytics information in real time […]

The Netcraft Web Server Survey is a survey of Web server software usage on the Internet. Netcraft received responses to its April 2004 survey from 49,750,568 sites. This is about 1.7 million more sites than responded in March. Although it represents yet another peak in the number of responses received, the four top-four players, Apache, […]

In its monthly job-cut report released today, global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, said the March figure is 12% lower than the 77,250 cuts in February and is 20% lower than the 85,396 cuts announced in March a year ago. In the first quarter, job cuts totaled 262,840, which is 28% lower than the […]

WLAN management provider Aptilo Networks is partnering with the European WeRoam service. Any provider using the Aptilo Service Management Platform will soon be able to flip a switch to make their venues a roaming spot for WeRoam subscribers. WeRoam currently claims 8,000 hotspots on their virtual network world wide, which facilitates moving between Wi-Fi and […]

By Ron Miller SBC has dropped prices on its SBC Yahoo! co-branded broadband service with a $36.99 package that includes high-speed Internet access along with local, long distance and wireless service. At download speeds of between 1.5 megabits per second to 3 megabits per second, the new service, called SBC Total Connections, is offering twice […]